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...person with a mother and an aunt who have Alzheimer's, I very much related to the accuracy of Roger Rosenblatt's description of this horrid disease [ESSAY, Jan. 12]. Being with my mother is like encountering 10 different people at the same time. Which one will be at the other end of the exchange? The nasty one? The childlike one? The confused one? The hostile one? The loving one? Or, hardest of all, the one who seems as if she is the same sweet person I have always known? For whatever consolation it is, I believe that her awareness...
Fill out a lottery form here, Dartboard, take a number there, Dartboard, and kiss up as much as you can, because this class is restricted. Shall we write an essay showing you how much we know, how much we need to know, what we've done and how much we care, fax it to your country house and drop it off in your box in the basement of the Bio Labs...
...piece "Amistad is important. Discuss" distorted the facts about the study guide my company developed for the film Amistad [ESSAY, Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. The guide was written not by publicists but by editors of this company, which has almost 20 years' experience in creating classroom materials. It was designed as a supplement to--not a substitute for--the social studies curriculum. We ask students to explore the difference between historical drama and historical scholarship and include a comprehensive bibliography. The response from educators has been overwhelmingly positive. DOMINIC KINSLEY, Editor in Chief Lifetime Learning Systems Stamford, Conn...
...Living abroad changes a student," said Menon, who wrote about the cultural issues of being Indian in her application essay, throwing in some ideas about London. "Students mature more quickly than living...
This assertion may surprise some people, since it comes from the author who almost single-handedly gave African-American women their rightful place in American literature. Racial questions have figured prominently in many of Morrison's critical essays. But there is really no contradiction between what she says now and what she has written in the past. She views her life and work as a struggle against the use of racial categories, or any categories, as a means of keeping groups of people powerless and excluded. She resents seeing her writing pigeonholed by her skin color. "I was reading some...